Pocket-cutlery



' J. D. PRARY. Pocket-Cutlery.-

No. 225,359. Patented Mar. 9, Isso,

.FETES, PHOFITNOGRAPHER. WASHINGTON UV C.

construction,as hereinafterdescribed, and pari f UNITED STATESv PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES D. FRARY, OF BRIDGEPORT, CONNECTICUT.

` POCKET-CUTLE RY.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 225,359, dated March 9, 1880.

' 'Application filed January 7, 1880.

YTo all whom it may concern:

nection with the accompanying drawings and4 the letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specication, and represent, iii- Figure l, side view of the lining of a knifehandle as arranged for a blade at both ends; Fig. 2, longitudinal section enlarged g Fig. 3, transverse section enlarged.

This invention relates to an improvement in that class of pocket-knife handles known as close-back, and in which the back and lining for the two sides are struck up from a single piece of sheet metal. In the usual construction the back and sides of the lining are of a metal of soft character, such as brass or German silver, and it is found if the end of the back be turned up to form the bunter or strike for the blade it has not the strength to resist the constant striking of the shoulder of the blade for any great length of time.

The object of this invention is to provide this class of handles with a strike capable of withstanding the wear or strain which necessarily comes upon it; and it consists in the ticularly recited in the claim.

The two sides a a and the back b of the handle are struck up in the usualmanner from a single piece of metal. At the ends where the blades are to be hung (either in one or both) a perforation, c, is made through the two sides, and through them a piece of steel, d, is introduced transversely across `the space between the two sides, as see-n in Fig. 3, and riveted or otherwise made fast in that position. This piece of steel forms the bunter or strike, against which the shoulder of vthe blade will strike and rest when open, and,b ecause of its hard nature, it is able to withstand the repeated blows from the opened blade, which the metal of the lining` itself would not do. i

It will be understood that the piece d is in troduced not only as a strike, but also to close Vthe space between the spring and the back, to

prevent any foreign substance from entering between the spring and back to interfere with the proper working of the spring.

Instead of riveting, the strike may be secured in the perforation in the sides by solder or otherwise. y

I do not broadly claixnwthe introduction of a steel or hard-metal strike in pocket-knives; but

The herein-described improvement in pocket-cutlery, consisting of the close hack and lining-sides made from sheet met-al, combined with the hard-metal strike d, set" in perforations in the side and secured therein, substantially as described. A

JAMEs D. EEAEY.

Witnesses:

JOHN E. EAELE, Jos. C. EARLE. 

